2022 WW DX Contest Final Results Announced
I was 2nd in Japan in the RAW score, about 10,000 points behind the 1st place station, but after the log check, I was awarded the 1st place by a point deduction.
This gave me JA 1st place in JA for both SSB/CW.
The final results of last year 2023 CQ World Wide DX Contest SSB have been announced.
Awards available for download.
The equipment at this time was IC-7700 (100W), 20m high Nagara 20/15m band Yagi T2-5DX(20mH), 15m band working with 5 elements.
Previously, the boom length was about 8m with 4 elements, and the T2-5DX is just under 12m with 5 elements. I think this difference was well reflected in the results.
But this season, I sifted to the 10m band with 6elements Yagi.
CQ WPX Contest review by JA6WFM.
Over the weekend, I participated in the CQ WPX SSB contest on a 10m band.
The contest started at 00:00 UTC at 9:00 in the morning Japan time. Normally, the North American area is open and be able to hear a lot of strong signals. It was less.
I quickly exhausted all the North American stations I could hear and started running, but I was rarely called.
Fortunately, I could hear a lot of nearby stations belonging to Oceania, such as YB and DU, so I gave up trying to QSO with North America and turned my antenna from northeast to southwest to accumulate points.
At around 3:00 pm Japan time, 06UTC, QSO time with Europe will begin. A lot of stations were heard compared to morning North America and conditions. This continued until 12 UTC around 9:00 pm Japan time, and I was able to accumulate more points.
The second day was much the same as the first day. On Monday morning Japan time, the A index was down, so I was hoping for an opening in the North American direction towards the end of the season, but it only recovered a little from the first day, and I wasn't able to accumulate points as usual.
That said, compared to last year's conditions, this year's conditions were much better and I was able to achieve my target score.
Hiro.
Audio review https://youtu.be/3wfqIMmuAtw
IC-7700(100W) 6ele Yagi N1MM
Time / QSO Zone
Running QSO(True) and S&P(False)
On the weekend, I participated in the Hungarian DX Contest on multi-band.
I started at 21:00 JST/12:00 UTC on 15m band and did a few contacts, then early the next morning I did a dozen stations on 40m band and hoped for Europe in the afternoon.
I restarted to operate on 15m band at around 15:00JST/06:00 UTC, and looking at the band scope on 10m band, I could see that the number of signals was gradually increasing and it was getting busier. I shifted to SO2R at this point. At the peak of conditions, the 10m band was busier than the 15m band. I focused on 10m band until the evening, then returned to 15m band and continued SO2R operations with 10m band as conditions began to drop.
One hour before the end of the contest, at 8:00 p.m. Japan time, I was sitting by the window of the shack and felt a chill in half of my body due to the ineffective heating. It might have been the effect of an approaching cold air mass.
The 10-meter band was also gradually losing condition, so I finished here.
Next is ARRL International DX CW in February, and WPX RTTY before that.
IC-7700(100W) IC-7610 7MHzRDP, 21MHz5ele, 28MHzHB9CV
N1MM, u2R for SO2R
Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
Have fun this year with the Contesting.
Received a nice award early in the New Year.
